Jonathan Haverkampf

Fear of Going Outside (Agoraphobia) in Children: Understanding, Treatment, and Prognosis

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Ultimately, empathy and understanding create a foundation of trust and support for children coping with agoraphobia. Your empathy can be crucial in their journey toward managing and overcoming their fears. Treating agoraphobia in children often involves a combination of therapies tailored to their age and developmental stage. Here are some common approaches: Every child is […]

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Understanding Separation Anxiety: A Guide to Coping and Support

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Separation anxiety isn’t just for children; it’s a complex emotional response that can affect individuals of all ages. While it’s commonly associated with young children reluctant to part from their caregivers, it’s also a significant concern for adults and pets. This condition manifests when individuals experience intense distress or fear when separated from a person

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Anxiety and the Environment: Eco-Anxiety

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Climate change is a real threat to the environment and ourselves. Among climate change deniers, many are probably merely denying climate change because they are afraid of something else, such as feelings of loss of control in their daily lives. Inconvenient explanations also often lead to denial. Eco-anxiety does not affect everyone equally. It tends

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Can You Fake It Til You Make It?

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For those who live with social anxiety, the prospect of attending social events or interacting with others can be incredibly daunting. Even the simplest interactions can be a struggle, and many find themselves paralyzed by fear. If this is something you can relate to, you may have heard the suggestion to “fake it til you … Read More about Can You Fake It Til You Make It?
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Defense mechanisms as predictors of anxiety and self-esteem—A multiple regression analysis.

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Psychoanalytic Psychology, Vol 40(4), Oct 2023, 348-353; doi:10.1037/pap0000459 Defense mechanisms are supposed to help us deal with stress by decreasing anxiety and preserving our self-esteem. The aim of the present study was to determine which defense styles and specific defense mechanisms have the strongest association with anxiety and self-esteem. Defense Style Questionnaire–40 (DSQ-40), Rosenberg Self-Esteem

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Computerized linguistic analysis: Which associations correspond with students’ symptom reduction in a brief psychodynamic intervention?

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This study explored some of the mechanisms that can be helpful in psychotherapy. It investigated the usefulness of a university counselling intervention by evaluating changes in psychological symptomatology before and after the therapeutic intervention and in the linguistic measures applied to clinical reports of the first and last sessions. The sample consisted of 88 university

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The Complexities of Mother-Daughter Relationships

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Mother-daughter relationships are a unique blend of joy, love, understanding, and, at times, conflict. There’s a shared experience that makes them deeply connected, yet unique individual perspectives can lead to clashes and misunderstandings. The first common challenge in this relationship is communication. Mothers, often with a wealth of life experience, may offer advice that daughters

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The Fear of COVID. The Fear of Polio.

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This article is a personal account of how the coronavirus pandemic triggered my childhood defenses, just like when I fell victim to the polio epidemic. It describes the similarities between the experiences of polio and reactions to the pandemic, like the collapse of time, the feeling of numbness and passivity, managing fear through denial, and

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